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According to Wikiquote, "frit" is an unusual Lincolnshire dialect abbreviation of 'frightened' which Mrs Thatcher evidently recalled from her Grantham childhood. I am reminded of the word for two reasons. First, Lady Thatcher is reported by today's Independent to have said that she wishes she had never gone into politics. A report that prompted my mischievous and slightly unfair but quite irresistible tweet that perhaps for the first time the former Prime Minister has spoken for the nation. The second reason is that I got round to reading Judge Birss QC's judgment in Merck Sharp Dohme Corporation and Another v Teva Pharma BV and Another [2012] EWHC 627 (Pat) (15 March 2012) which concerned the circumstances in which a quia timet action and indeed interim injunctive relief are justified. "Quia timet", as Margaret Roberts could no doubt once have told us when she was a sweet little schoolgirl, means "because he's frit".